Baling-press



(No ModeL) 'I'.AD.- KANE. 'Ealing Press.

No. 229,892. vvPmrvd July 13, 1880.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE. y

BALING-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 229,892, dated July 13,1880.

Application nieu May 2o, 1880. (No model) To all lwhom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS D. KANE, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State ot'- Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ealing-Presses; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description otl the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The present invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in the means employed for simultaneously releasing both of the doors oi' the box ot' a balng'press to admit ot' their being readily opened and the bale discharged therefrom without the necessity of using ahammer, ax, sledge, or man1 to knock open the doors, as has been usually the custom.

The simultaneous unlocking or releasing of these doors I attain by the mechanisml illustrated inathe accompanying' drawing, which represents a perspective view ot' the box ot' a billing-press embodying my invention.

ln the drawing, A represents the side doors of the box, rigidly secured to the usual frame B, and G the removable end doors. This part ot' the baling-press is designed to receive the bale and admit the securing of it while under pressure, and also to allow ot' its being disy charged.

To the doors A are secured battens a b, having at their ends latches c, of any suitable construction, to receive the hooked ends ot' horizontal clamping-rods D, which are held in place by a rolling bar, E, passing through loops d upon the batten b and bearin g against the inner sides ot' the hooked ends ot' the rods D, said rolling bar having a crank, e, or other means of operating it, either at one or both ends, as found desirable.

In pressing the cotton, rags, moss, hay, 86e.,

into a bale there is considerable strain or press-- ure on the clamping bars or rods which hold the doorsand it has usually been the custom to knock them on one end to free them. With my improvement all that is necessary is to turn the rolling bar E by the crank e, which will cause the bar to roll up and lift the ends of the clamping-rods over the battens of the doors C, and thereby simultaneously release them.

It will thus be seen that a very simple and effective means is obtained for releasing or unlocking the doors at once, and at the same time without having to use a hammer or other similar tool, which is attended too frequently with injury to the press;

The inven tion may be placed on presses th at pack up or down, or on presses working' horizontally or with horizontal packin g-hoxes, with equal beneficial results.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The means for simultaneously releasing the end doors ot' a baling-press, consisting ot' the hooked clamping-rods D and the rolling bar E, combined and arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two Witnesses.

THOMAS D. KANE.

Witnesses: D. I. DoWEEs, ROBERT BELL. 

